Inhaltsangabe

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life - mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore.

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone - and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra.

The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he’s embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what’s going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.

With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the 21st century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that’s rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious listener, no matter the time of day.

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Autor:
Gail Honeyman

Sprecher:
Cathleen McCarron

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 36 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
185

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
177

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
175

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world....

5 out of 5 stars

Exceptional story, excellently read

Von
Ina Lambert
Am hilfreichsten
30.07.2017

Sourdough

A Novel

Autor:
Robin Sloan

Sprecher:
Therese Plummer

Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 47 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
5

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her - feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.

5 out of 5 stars

Zum Schreien!

Von
Sophie
Am hilfreichsten
07.05.2018

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

Autor:
Amor Towles

Sprecher:
Nicholas Guy Smith

Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 52 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

5 out of 5 stars

Philosophical and warm-hearted

Von
Alice
Am hilfreichsten
11.03.2017

Ajax Penumbra 1969

Autor:
Robin Sloan

Sprecher:
Ari Fliakos

Spieldauer: 1 Std. und 49 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
3

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
3

Young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book: the single surviving copy of the
Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Autor:
Mark Manson

Sprecher:
Roger Wayne

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 17 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.845

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.663

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.656

For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

5 out of 5 stars

If I only had listened to this two years earlier...

Von
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Am hilfreichsten
08.05.2017

Imagine Me Gone

Autor:
Adam Haslett

Sprecher:
Ellen Archer,
Robert Fass

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 52 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
6

When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him.
Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Autor:
Gail Honeyman

Sprecher:
Cathleen McCarron

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 36 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
185

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
177

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
175

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world....

5 out of 5 stars

Exceptional story, excellently read

Von
Ina Lambert
Am hilfreichsten
30.07.2017

Sourdough

A Novel

Autor:
Robin Sloan

Sprecher:
Therese Plummer

Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 47 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
5

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her - feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.

5 out of 5 stars

Zum Schreien!

Von
Sophie
Am hilfreichsten
07.05.2018

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

Autor:
Amor Towles

Sprecher:
Nicholas Guy Smith

Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 52 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

5 out of 5 stars

Philosophical and warm-hearted

Von
Alice
Am hilfreichsten
11.03.2017

Ajax Penumbra 1969

Autor:
Robin Sloan

Sprecher:
Ari Fliakos

Spieldauer: 1 Std. und 49 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
3

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
3

Young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book: the single surviving copy of the
Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Autor:
Mark Manson

Sprecher:
Roger Wayne

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 17 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.845

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.663

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
1.656

For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

5 out of 5 stars

If I only had listened to this two years earlier...

Von
Samuel
Am hilfreichsten
08.05.2017

Imagine Me Gone

Autor:
Adam Haslett

Sprecher:
Ellen Archer,
Robert Fass

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 52 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
6

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
6

When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him.
Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody.

The Girl with All the Gifts

Autor:
M. R. Carey

Sprecher:
Finty Williams

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 3 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
169

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
157

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
159

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells.

5 out of 5 stars

Was bedeutet es, ein Mensch zu sein?

Von
papercuts1
Am hilfreichsten
07.10.2014

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Autor:
Claire North

Sprecher:
Peter Kenny

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 8 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
124

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
112

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
114

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says.

5 out of 5 stars

Remarkable new British SF

Von
Ingo Guenther
Am hilfreichsten
17.01.2017

The Children Act

Autor:
Ian McEwan

Sprecher:
Lindsay Duncan

Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 15 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
68

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
66

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
66

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of 30 years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful 17-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out.

5 out of 5 stars

McEwan did it again!

Von
Nikolai
Am hilfreichsten
18.11.2014

Fated

Alex Verus, Book 1

Autor:
Benedict Jacka

Sprecher:
Gildart Jackson

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 33 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
168

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
162

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
162

Camden, North London. A tangled, mangled junction of train lines, roads and waterways. Where minor celebrities hang out with minor criminals and where tourists and moody teenagers mingle. In the heart of Camden, where rail meets road meets leyline, you might find the Arcana Emporium, run by one Alex Verus. He won't sell you a wand or mix you a potion, but if you know what you're looking for, he might just be able to help.

3 out of 5 stars

Magic Quest in the British Museum of London

Von
BikerJoe
Am hilfreichsten
30.06.2017

I Am the Messenger

Autor:
Markus Zusak

Sprecher:
Marc Aden Gray

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 38 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
31

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
16

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
17

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

5 out of 5 stars

Ein mitreißendes Buch in einer mitreißenden Lesung

Von
Normen Behr
Am hilfreichsten
24.11.2010

Skagboys

Autor:
Irvine Welsh

Sprecher:
Tam Dean Burn

Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 48 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
5

Mark Renton has it all: He's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s.Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas.